current projects

INDUSTRY STUDIES

World Press Trends for WAN-IFRA

In February 2018, the IRG team accepted the invitation from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) to take on World Press Trends, which since 1989 has provided the most authoritative insights into the dynamics of the global news industry. Dr François Nel is the editor of WPT and Dr Coral Milbun-Curtis is the chief data analyst. Our first presentation of WPT will be on June 8th at the 70th Congress of WAN-IFRA to be held in Portugal.

The World News Publishers Outlook

The Innovation Research Group (IRG) is collaborating with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on a study to better understand and benchmark senior decision-makers’ responses to the challenges across the news company value chain.

The study aims to help news media executives to:

benchmark their company’s performance against industry norms around the world

compare the strategic priorities of leaders from the C-suite and across editorial, commercial and technology management

identify if the priorities of highly profitable companies differ from those of loss-making ones

We are inviting editorial, commercial, technology and senior management to complete a 20-question survey that is available in 10 languages: English as well as Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Nel, François, Lehtisaari, Katja and Milburn-Curtis, Coral. (2015) ‘Clashes or Consensus? What editorial, commercial and senior newspaper executives at profitable and unprofitable companies believe about the dynamic capabilities of their firms – and each other’s ability to deliver.’ Negotiating Culture Conference, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, 28-30 October 2015.

We welcome opportunities to collaborate, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.